a promise

“Before leaving home we’d talked about the prospect of making more than one trip to Alaska, and had agreed to see how the first one went.

“I feel so alive up here, She said, picking up the drawknife.

A minute later she stopped peeling again. “Dad”, she said, “promise me that you’ll try to live as long as possible.”
-James Campbell, Braving It

Mrs. Abstract hinted that also after my open heart surgery.

photo: It’s me. River Cruise in Germany.